Tarot History & Development

Research, theories and discussions of the origins, myths, influences and development of Tarot and playing cards.
From Education to Tarot
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Cesare Ripa, Iconologia, (Perugia, 1764-67)
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The Shape of Milan
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Info needed about this Eteilla I deck
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Help with research? Origins of esoteric Tarot thought..
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3,231
Sermones de Ludo Cum Aliis
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Guglielma / Manfreda
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Where/How to Buy a Marseilles Deck in England - 1853?
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Giovanni dalla Gabella, well paid card painter in Ferrara 1423
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Historically representative card decks - patterns
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Greek Statues & Iconography and the Tarot Images
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Tarot history isn't very well organised
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Two Popes/Two Emperors?
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Very special German bird
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The Mamluks and the Venetian connection
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The 5x14 Theory: An Investigation.
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The man at the nose of the Monster
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French Suits - Espadille & Baste?
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identification of some of the Sola Busca court cards
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Decembrio's Bestiarium & the Michelino deck
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Tarocchino (62 Card) Decks
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If tarot was first used as playing cards, why then...
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Influence of Chinese Cards on Tarot
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Etteillas early book online!
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Julia Orsini, Le Grand Etteila, ou l'Art de Tirer les Cartes. 1853
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16,570
Pictures of men reading cards prior to 1960??
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Trappola?
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3,832
Ferrara Placement of Justice
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2,229
Liechtenstein - fifth suit deck from 1450s
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Estensi Tarots...start with Parisina Malatesta D'Este and playing cards for children
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Chess iconography
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Minor Arcana Correspondences
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So you'd like to know the history of tarot
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Plato and Tarot
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A History of Games Played with the Tarot Pack Supplement
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Zeus and the Hanged Man
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Spanish cartomancy and witchcraft with cards
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26,464
Dodechedron / Jean de Meung (1556)
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5,930
Druid Tarot
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Tarot Symbolism, Robert V. O'Neill, First Edition
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Le Tarot Divinatoire (1909) Gérard Encausse
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Bronzino: In Lode del Zanzara / Germini
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Pasquino and the "Pasquinate del conclave"
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Chrysopoeia
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the fool vs trickster
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The Devil and the Two of Hearts pt. 1
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Research: "Niccolo da Fabriano"
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"Donne Illustri" cycle Ferrara 1486-90 / Boiardo
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Anti Gambling Law in Ferrara 1496
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Yygdrasilian's theory
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Snail helmet / Sola-Busca and Leber Tarocchi
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Mantegna-Tarocchi-engraver? Sweynheim, Pannartz, Bocking?
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Tarot As The Original Book of Secrets
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Why did Eliphas Levi attribute Le Mat to the letter Shin?
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Angelo Decembrio / Fool / Pisani / Alberti
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Tarot development- Mhchelino, Mantegna, Sola Busca, Minchiate?
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Plea for advice from the experts....
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3,865
A lost Gringonneur/Estensi copy?
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10
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Hajo Banzhaf
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Looking Again At The Tower
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Spielkartenmuseum in Germany
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History and Theory of the Elements
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Visconti - Knight Swords riding uver Justice
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Historical Games
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Visconti
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The Number 21 and the Tarot Trumps
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The Hallowed Profane
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Alternate to 6-9-7
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Trying to find some pictures
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Mapping the Tarot's Structure
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The 'Game' of Tarot: Play and Education in Plato
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Looking for tarot story
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The Egyptian Theory of Origin
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Tarot's Origin in Stone Pillars and Dice Divination
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Speculation: A sandbox for historical imagination
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XVI Century "Art of Memory" about playing cards
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Card Divination before the 18th century??
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2,735
Svyashtchennaya Kniga Tota—Velikiye Arkany Taro
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Orphic Origin of the Triumph Cards
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Calandar 354 - The Months Script.
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The 'tarot trumps' inspired by the Mamluk cards
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Roccabianca card-playing fresco
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Ursino mystery card
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Empress as allegory of Empire
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A Visual Diastasis Of The 5X14 Theory
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Tarot reading customs, conventions and paraphernalia
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What makes a "Tarot Historian"?
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anton woensam
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Questions about the "Bardic origin of Tarot" theory
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Natural Sequences Marrying Image to Number
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Youtube ... Lost History Tarot cards
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First Tarot Diviners
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Sumerian Origin?
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Winged Temperance - XV Century
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Uncut Sheets of Cards
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Comparing two ancient tarot poems
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Minchiate Tower and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden
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The Book of Tokens
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purple colour.
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The Boiardo Tarocchi poem on its way out of some Italian dust
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